Thanks, now that I understand how the handles work I can see how I zoomed to the item max. My game did become playable again after the 1.06 update. It was crashing anytime I traded with NPCs. For this recent crash I went back some saves and have not had a crash from trading but the Silverglen load still crashes. Based on the handle info I can see if this is really not an item max crash then I will probably see it soon. I think it is time to just play the game rather than min maxing haha... I had some really great legendary outfits on all of my characters at level 10 though...
As for the pre-placed items, do you mean the flora around hedges and shells found on the beach? If I am not going to use them it is better to just leave them there then?
It sounds like the best crafting would be scrap metal/cloth/leather into armour. Always a good value at a later level. Crafting staves seems horrible since the item chain is huge and making swords and axes seems a bit tedious.
As for items added to an existing stack do you mean like smelting ore into bars and that they stack? Either way, I will just go easy on merchant trading until I really need some better gear.
